Ulrich Otto von Dewitz (politician)

Ulrich Otto von Dewitz (born October 8, 1814 in Groß Miltzow ; † February 22, 1871 ibid) was a Mecklenburg landowner and politician.

Life

Ulrich Otto von Dewitz was the son of the landowner Adolph von Dewitz (* 1787; † 1816) and Amalie von Schöning († 1840), as well as the grandson of the Privy Council President Otto Ulrich von Dewitz from the Miltzower line of the Mecklenburg noble family von Dewitz . He owned the estates Miltzow, Helpt, Ulrichshof and Krumbeck, which was located in a Prussian exclave and inherited from his uncle Otto Ernst von Dewitz . Ulrich Otto von Dewitz studied law at the University of Göttingen in 1833 and became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen . As a squire, he became known as a horse breeder . He was also a knight of the Order of St. John . As a parliamentarian, he was a member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives for the constituency of Mecklenburg-Strelitz / Stargardischer Kreis 12 in 1848 , where, as an opponent of democracy, he represented the interests of the Mecklenburg knighthood and spoke out in favor of close ties to Prussia . He was one of the three shop stewards who applied to the Prussian government for arbitration, which then led to the Freienwalder arbitration award and was thus causal for the restoration of the old rural constitution in both Mecklenburgs. He temporarily represented Mecklenburg as envoy to the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main .

1845 Dewitz married with Freiin Hedwig Maltzahn adH Sarow (* 1819; † 1888) with which it a son Otto Ulrich (* 1856), rights Knights of St. John and royal Prussian Premier Lt. a. D., as well as a daughter Ursula (* 1864). He died of his own hand in 1871. Since his heirs remained unmarried, the Dewitz-Miltzow line died out with their deaths.

Dewitz and Bismarck

Dewitz was a cousin of Otto von Bismarck and had been in contact with him since childhood. Both studied at about the same time in Göttingen, where Dewitz also seconded Bismarck's last Göttingen scale , and again in Frankfurt at the Bundestag. They remained in lifelong correspondence.

Fonts

• Improvement of the school system in Krumbeck , 1845

literature

• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Tape. 1, WT Bruer, Berlin 1896, p. 456
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2098 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 87 , 264.